Shockingly underweight model in TV ad

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Has anyone seen the TV ad for Dylon (of all things)? - it features two female models, the first (with afro hair) is wearing a loose top / pant suit so it's hard to tell, but seems pretty thin, but the second, wearing red, is so so thin. Her arms just go in a straight line, no curve of any kind of muscle, she's bordering on skeletal, her face looks gaunt too.

I just saw the ad for the second time - by coincidence I'd just read an article (think it was on BBC news website) about how fashion houses have moved away from 'body positivity' and plus size models, and thin is back. The theory is this is partially influenced by all the Hollywood stars on Ozempic.

This is so unhealthy to put on TV as the kind of female beauty that everyone should aspire to. I really thought we'd moved past it now. Depressing.

They both look absolutely healthy and normal, the one in red has a good set of shoulders and like a pp mentioned figure of a dancer, she's lithe not skeletal.

I honestly hate posts like this on here, as someone as thin as the woman in red. It was the same when there was a thread about a model and the op presuming she must be a teenager because she was thin. It's just bloody offensive. If people posted about how unhealthy a heavier model looked it wouldn't be acceptable. She doesn't look shockingly underweight at all, she looks naturally thin with long slender limbs, which some people naturally have!

@soupyspoon agree with her being very tall. Looking at my tall and lanky family, she is probably about 5ft 11 with a BMI of 20 ish.

She looks absolutely fine she a healthy weight to me. She’s clearly tall and willowy and gorgeous.

It’s true, nothing bingo about it. Would the OP prefer if the models were obese or morbidly obese? I don’t see anyone starting threads on models who are plus size. People have forgotten it’s healthy to be slender and toned.

She looks great.

She looks thin to some because they don't remember a time when fatties weren't the norm.

I’d bet good money neither of those women had a below 18 bmi which is classed as underweight. In fact I’d think they were both quite significantly above it. The lady in red at least 20

i see a lot of threads like this and clearly healthy weight models, we really have lost sight of what a healthy weight looks like.

She looks healthier than the models in the snag tights adverts

But it is a healthy weight, of course it gets said if it is true.

She looks tall, slim and perfectly healthy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62elpm2md2o
I think it's such a backward step that the fashion houses are reverting to using super skinny models again.

She is certainly on the thinner side but I don't think anything to be overly worried about. And I realise this is hypocritical as I've posted on this thread but threads about a particular person's body are not really fair. Discuss trends in size etc but to pick on a particular person seems unnecessary.

@Gettingslimmer I agree, when I do the school run lots and lots of the children, at least a third are very overweight, some have proper hanging out bellies and not due to posture. I can appreciate a bit of puppy fat around puberty but they're not all like that.
I think we are as a society getting bigger at younger and younger ages, it definitely skews people's perceptions, it's not healthy at all and if you point it out kindly enough people still get extremely offended and bury their heads in the sand.

She looks very healthy and toned to me. I work with a lady like this. She eats very healthy and enjoys exercise. I’m so jealous. I am a size 16. I go places sometimes and I’m one of the slimmest people there. It’s a cliche I know but we are losing track of what healthy looks like.

I think she looks fantastic. The 'normal' range of BMI is based on averages. She's clearly at the lower end, but she isn't emaciated and looks perfectly healthy. I'm about the same build (though not as tall) and my BMI is 19.

I agree.

She looks fine to me. She is slender but she is very long limbed. I've seen a lot worse.

My DD aged 26 is as slim as her (not as tall though) and it's completely natural on her. DD is one of these women that could eat a horse and not put on an ounce. Me on the other hand, I just have to think of a cake to put on weight!

I am a similar shape/size to the lady in red in the video. I eat loads and exercise loads. I think my weight is healthy for me. I go to running club every week and most people are my size.

Agree, I’m shocked at the words being used, skeletal, gaunt etc. she is far from that. In fact she’s very similar height and build to my daughter, who has a bmi of 21.

she looks great in my opinion and I’d assume she’s a a dancer from how she moves, so likely incredibly fit.

it’s a sad time when seeing a lower end healthy weight woman results in these sort of comments . Which wouldn’t be accepted if someon4 was posting about how a woman of a bmi of 24 or 25 looked fat.

amd it’s always women trying to tear down other women. I really dislike it. There has been so many threads on here, accusing perfectly healthy women of being underweight, or thr worst I saw, a child.

I'd rather see models like these than ones like Ashley Graham or Tess Holliday.

Yes, me too!

Have a word with yourself OP.

The lady in the blue dress doesn't look 'shockingly underweight' at all, and nor does the lady in the red dress who is quite tall.

And just because some women are being paid to advertise detergent, why on earth does that mean anyone should 'aspire to look like them'?

If that's what you think, then that's on you.

I am concerned about the move back to heroin chic, and I am seeing that happening. But I don't see Ms Red Dress as skeletal. She's tall, thin and bony but not sticky-out bony. Agree she moves like a dancer.

However, she's thin in much the same way as Kate Moss was when her Calvin Klein ads sparked the heroin chic craze. Thin end of the wedge, perhaps (excuse pun), but I wouldn't pick this advertisement out as an example of unhealthily thin models.

Did ya ever think that the reason it gets said on "every thread like this one" is possibly because it's, y'know, true?

I'm fat af. I think she looks great. Healthy.

I agree, from what I can see she doesn't look underweight but hard to tell for definite

All my teens I was very slim and used to get called names because of it. I spent my thirties overweight. This woman looks fine. I’m sick of people having a go at thin women.